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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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Børge Rosenbaum
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And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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